Archive for September, 2008
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008I have a new nickname around the Evangel office — Bug Boy. I wear the badge with honor.
It’s an outgrowth of another name I have deserved at times, Fat Man. I dieted a year or so ago and dropped about 25 pounds (3.25 hectares, if you’re metrically minded). To help keep the weight off, I […]
Twelve
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008I turned 12 in 1976. Junior high school meant more rigorous academics (which I adapted to) and team sports (which I didn’t). My increased interest in girls accompanied my awkwardness in that department. Childhood’s freedoms were dying painfully, the responsibilities of young adulthood coming to life in fits and jerks.
Thoughts of 1976 and being 12 […]
Autumn?
Monday, September 22nd, 2008My desk calendar tells me today is the first day of autumn. NASA reminds me on their Web site that today evenly divides between daylight and night and carries the heavier title of “autumnal equinox.” They have an article about the day here, written in 2003 when it fell on September 24. It’s written for […]
Watch the Lamb
Thursday, September 18th, 2008I read of Ray Boltz’s admission to a lifelong struggle with homosexuality and was saddened he has decided the struggle is no longer necessary. I could take the word “homosexuality” out of the previous sentence, substitute any number of sinful tendencies I do battle with daily, and put my name in place of Ray’s.
Ray and […]
Paradoxes
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008Every morning I take my blood pressure medication and sip my coffee. Strong coffee. I let the caffeine and hydrochlorothiazide vie for supremacy.
I’m also prone to reading a thriller in bed before lights out. You’re getting sleepy… Read the next chapter!
Lindsay and I have an evening ritual. “Dad,” she asks, “have you put the blankets […]
Trust God No Matter What
Monday, September 15th, 2008This morning’s headlines on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch buyout have sent stocks plummeting. Gas prices are spiking again in reaction to a continuing barrage of hurricanes. If FDR had us singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” as the United States began to leave the Great Depression behind, what should the national jingle […]
9/11
Thursday, September 11th, 2008We parked our minivans at the condominium a row back from the beach a few miles east of Galveston Island, Texas, that Monday. We were looking forward to our annual reunion with my parents, my two brothers and their families. The rental cottage had five bedrooms, and we would need them—as well as the couch […]
Stuck in Neutral
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008The New York Times reported today that the European Parliament has voted 504 to 110 to “scold advertisers for ‘sexual stereotyping,’ adopting a nonbinding report that seeks to prod the industry to change the way it depicts men and women.” The committee report influencing the vote, the Times noted, claimed stereotypes in advertising can “straightjacket women, men, […]
Got Spore?
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Will Wright, 48, has been hailed as the world’s most successful computer game designer and “the Bono of the games industry.” His 2000 release, The Sims, became the foundation of the world’s current best-selling game series ($1.6 billion worldwide). Wright is poised to lay renewed claim to his titles with the Sept. 7 release of […]
Life’s Sudoku Sequences
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008Jodie got hooked on Sudoku a year or so ago and has spent many of our late-night reading-in-bed hours clicking away on an electronic version. I didn’t pay the game much mind until I was stuck in the doctor’s office recently and worked on the puzzle in the daily paper. Now I’m working my way […]
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